Washington Beltway Community Church

Great Sunday Morning Service at Washington Beltway Community Church.

I Peter 1:10-16 “Girding” or preparing our minds for action in relation to our salvation and a holiness that is holistic in scope.

Beginning Sunday, April 2. 2023 - Expository teaching on the Book of Habakkuk (Hab-a-kook) Beginning Sunday, April 2, 2003 we will be engaged in the expository teaching of the Old Testament Book of Habakkuk until we have completed it.  As the book is comprised of three chapters, we should complete the study in early May 2023 (as next Sunday is Easter) 

This Sunday, April 2, 2023,
at Washington Beltway Community Church ⛪️ we begin a multi-week series of expository teaching of the entire Old Testament Book of Habakkuk (Pronounced Hab-a-kook).

Great service yesterday. Pastor Mike’s message was

“Forgetting is not Forgetting, but a Reprioritization of Focus” (Philippians 3:4-16). “

Forgetting is not Forgetting in the classical definition, neither is Forgiving is not Forgetting.

The Apostle Paul said in verse 13, “Forgetting those things which is behind, and looking forward to the things that are ahead.”

Paul never forgot he was a Jew, from the stock of Israel, tribe of Benjamin, circumcised on the 8th day, blameless according to the law, learned from some who say was the third greatest Rabbi in Jewish history, Gamilel, that he persecuted the Church, gave the order, signed the papers, and was present at Stephen’s stoning, that he excelled in the Jewish religion above many of his equals being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of his the fathers. From time to time, Paul would pull declare these past events in contexts of his new life in Christ.

We never forget where we’ve been in life, how we once walked according to the world and the Prince of the power of the air, who may have hurt us, what we’ve done if we’ve hurt others (and we all have at some point), If we criticized the Church ⛪️ in our past lives, or even if Church structures have hurt us from within.

“Forgetting is not Forgetting in the classical definition, neither is Forgiving is not Forgetting”,

but it is a reprioritization of focus away from the past to a telos (end goal) we are looking forward to. Paul repriortizied his life and accordingly his ministry, to declare the former things I sought after are nothing but refuse (trash), he put aside that Alexander the Coppersmith had done him much evil and out him in the hands of the Lord for repayment, he put aside Demas forsaking him, having lived this present world, he put aside, the beatings, flogging, the manner of men like beasts, also his desire to attain notoriety in this life, but he said, I’m pressing towards something else now, “the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

Is it time for you to forget (and forgive), but not yet not forget, but instead reprioritize your focus and end game?

Good Sunday Morning 🌞, February 5, 2023. Have a great day and please include our Lord in your schedule. Today at WBCC we will be speaking/discussing:

WBCC Christian Book Club Virtual Zoom Breakfast Series - Jesus and John Wayne -Saturday, June 11, 2022, 9–11 AM EDT WASHINGTON BELTWAY COMMUNITY CHURCHChristian Book Club Virtual Zoom Breakfast Series“Where Jesus, the Bible & Theology intersects and informs culture & society.” Join us and bring your breakfast to the computer the 2nd Saturday of each month from 9:00–11:00 AM (EDT). This month we are discus...

At Washington Beltway Community Church ⛪️ this morning at 10:30 🕥 AM service we will explicate

“The Conquering Christian”

We are going to do "a deep exegetical dive"in Scripture. The Scripture for today is Romans 8:31-39. "The Conquering Christian" that means YOU and ME. Through sickness, trials, hosptializations, discouragement, job friction, discontentment, betrayal, family and friend friction. Church battles (they do exist) Those who try to block out path, etc. You are more than a conqueror!

Blessings,

Pastor Mike

At Washington Beltway Community Church ⛪️ this morning we will be looking at the 10 lepers in Luke 17:11-19. The lepers we not only healed, but there were social outcasts of society. While only one came back to give Jesus thanks, the message for us is not only thankfulness, but as Jesus ministering and loving 🥰 those who are regarded as “social outcasts” in our day and time.

That could take on a plethora of meaning (HIV, Disabled, homeless, economically marginalized, intolerance against those not like us from a nationality, ethnicity, religious (e.g. Islamic faith (which

Worship service - Sunday, October 31, 2021 10:30 AM "

Dr. Donaldson's message: "Tolerance and Sin of the Conscience Mind"

Looking forward to Sunday Morning service today at Washington Beltway Community Church. Teaching from the Psalms this morning

No Sunday Morning service today at Washington Beltway Community Church ⛪️, as we are gathering for a Memorial service at 11:30 AM in Manassas, Virginia of a family member of several of our parishioners. Please pray for that family which I speak of (God knows who they are). Thank you!

Wonderful Sunday Morning service at Washington Beltway Community Church ⛪️.

The message today: “Going back to Bethel” (Genesis 35:1-16).

In Hebrew Bethel is translated “The House of God.” El = God (e.g El shaddi the almighty God, El-ohim,etc) Beth = House

Jacob has fled to Bethel being on the run for his life from his brother Esau, stealing his birthright )with the help of his mother. He met God there, repented and eventually in Genesis 33, Esau reconciled with Jacob.

In Chapter 35, he goes back to Bethel as a place of remembrance, and recommitting his life and so did the Israelites who complied with the request to put away with foreign gods. God then reminded them of his covenant (berith) was them. Jacob then offered a drink offered to the Lord on a stone pillar. Verse 16 says, “Then they moved on from Bethel.”

Every now and then, we need to have a Bethel pilgrimage, where we go back spiritually where we meet the Kied. That can take the form in addition to going back to a special place of remembrance where one has commune with God. It is a personal or collective revival for us and the Church.

As we discussed, in our Thursday Global Pentecostalism class, we are not meant to live in a constant state a revival. Revival means to “bring life to again.” It’s for the saints, not the unchurched specifically to get saved (although, that is a welcome plus to any revival). When we are revived or re-live” we are ready to go back into the world and live for Jesus and not for the euphoric feeling we felt during the revival process.

You see, Jacob, his family and others didn’t stay at Bethel, they moved on (verse 16). Bethel is a temporary, but necessary stop for rejuvenation periodically in our Christian journey, but you can’t stay at Bethel, you must move on after being revived. There are others who need to take your place and spot at Beth-el (The house of God).